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This is probably one of the best features added to the Pokémon franchise ever, but it's such a shame that the camera recognition sucks eggs. I actually thought it was because it couldn't recognize me as it's not my 3DS. I have to pretty much be in a specific, correct angle for it to active the whole "make faces" activity, but I was only able to complete it once. I can't make a huge smile or a small smile very well thus far.

I wonder how talking into the microphone works for Pokémon-Amie specifically. The Pokémon recognizes sounds, and it indicates with a musical note and small cry, but I don't exactly know what it really does. Apparently you can record phrases for battles if you max out the affection, but I haven't gotten that far. Enjoyment seems to be more successful with me.

And while this may sound strange, it was rather heartbreaking to go into Pokémon-Amie with my Venasaur to find he turned his back on me until I tapped him (or said something, can't remember). It made me feel bad about neglecting him. Prior to last night, I only experimented with Amie once, and I just about died from cuteness that I couldn't continue xD. The minigames are pretty fun. Head It and Tile Puzzle are my favorites. My Raichu seems to be the most energetic or at least more friendly or whateve. It kept waving at me as though to tell me to do something or "go on", but I couldn't read her xD.

I have to say, of all six pokemon on my team (maybe even among pokemon in general) Pikachu seems to be the most emotionally intelligent. As soon as I used Amie to see how she was doing, I could tell that she was starving. Feeding her just once made the affection meter rise from 2 to 3 hearts. I couldn't count how many small hearts there were, because there were that many. What do you guys think?

I have to say, of all six pokemon on my team (maybe even among pokemon in general) Pikachu seems to be the most emotionally intelligent. As soon as I used Amie to see how she was doing, I could tell that she was starving. Feeding her just once made the affection meter rise from 2 to 3 hearts. I couldn't count how many small hearts there were, because there were that many. What do you guys think?

I think it would be safe to assume that there are a ton more possible interactions for Pikachu than for any other random pokemon, like say, Stunfisk.

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The "popular" Pokemon (Pikachu, the first forms of the starters, and the Eevee line, to name some) do have a noticeably larger amount of reactions to being touched and have some unique ones that don't work for any other Pokemon (Holding the cursor on the screen for a moment without touching them or holding a Pokepuff near them without actually giving it to them, for instance).

I'm thankful they at least gave most of the Pokemon multiple facial expressions, though.

I've noticed a flavor preference with my pyroar and eevee (now leafeon) both will become much happier at certain flavors, for instance, if I feed my leafeon a green pokepuff with icing and a cinnamon stick, she'll run in circles and make adorable cries and a glitter like shimmer will appear, if I feed her any other flavor, she'll eat it and smile but doesn't react so vividly, Pyroar will happily eat any deluxe puff, but if he eats a mocha puff with the white marshmallow looking square, he'll toss his head back and roar happily. Those are the only two of my Pokemon I've noticed this in. Maybe it's because these two have maxed out affection? I'm not sure, but I have also noticed they always eat their last PokePuff much slower, this is what notifies me they're full and won't eat another if I try to feed them.

So, after doing a bit of research on my own, I saw someone post the number of hearts required between each affection level (1-5), just to tack onto that.

When using Amie, when your Pokemon is full and petting it isn't giving off hearts anymore. Play any minigame to reset the cap of hearts you can get at a time. Playing the minigame also makes your pokemon hungry so feeding it again will also give more hearts as well, then back to the minigame.

Basically, pet your pokemon until a music note is all you get -> feed it puffs (the fancier looking the puff, the more hearts you get) until full -> at least one minigame (the harder and better you do, the better puffs you'll get though) -> repeat.
Playing the minigame and doing really well gives you better puffs which means more hearts before your pokemon is full.
When you gain an affection level, the pokemon will do a happy dance and a lot of hearts will appear again. When you gain an affection level, it does not reset the hearts-per-minigame cap. When you reach Max Affection, the benefits for that pokemon are permanent, however only apply in pokemon battles where you'd gain experience, so basically just in-story battles.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think if you cap out the hearts via petting and then don't play a minigame, overtime, the amount of hearts you obtained will slowly decrease. Or maybe the cap increases. Not sure.

If you leave the Aime screen up while playing, you'll see the pokemon walking around and it will tell you whether it wants to play a minigame (green music note) or if it wants some puffs (pink puff symbol).

Speaking to the pokemon will get different reactions out of it, but I don't think I've seen this increase it's hearts, it may increase enjoyment.

Fainted pokemon cannot be played with. Haven't tried with different status effects.

Anyway, that's my first post and thought I'd try to help anyone that came new to the thread.
Forgive me if someone's already said all this and I missed it.

On another note - I got eevee to evolve into a Sylveon with 3 Affection hearts, 1 enjoyment, and it was at about 4 Fullness.

This is just a work in progress. I'm going to attempt to write a guide on Aime in my spare time. I realize it's not 100% accurate but I'm working on it.

Last edited by Valcain; 19th October 2013 at 10:30 PM.
Reason: More info added

It seems like the whole "simon says" minigame is restricted to cetain Pokemon. I had a team of Greninja, Charizard, Gogoat, Aegislash, Goodra, and Marowak and it never happened once. But when I use a Ralts, it happens all the time.

It's a little disappointing that most evolved Pokemon don't have any special animations they'll display if you idle for a while. They just look around briefly before returning their attention to you.

Originally Posted by AmusedMilk

It seems like the whole "simon says" minigame is restricted to cetain Pokemon. I had a team of Greninja, Charizard, Gogoat, Aegislash, Goodra, and Marowak and it never happened once. But when I use a Ralts, it happens all the time.

It just has to do with the camera positioning.

I've gotten to work with every Pokemon I've played with, among them Greninja, Manectric, Haxorus, Yveltal, and Hydreigon (Who has really amusing facial expressions).

Is there a way to discard unwanted PokePuffs without angrying your pokemon? i tend to have a surplus as I play alot of games.

I also noticed that pokemon have certain "favorite spots", like Swirlix likes being rubbed about below her mouth, and Chestnaught likes it when i stroke his arms. But do they have unfavorite spots? They sometimes make upsetting facial expressions and gestures when rubbed the wrong way (Interpert that however you like...). Also, touching certain spots on electric types gets you shocked!

EDIT: It seems that different pokemon put away poke puffs at different paces as well, even at lowest fullness i wonder if its dependent on the physical size of the pokemon, like an Eevee would eat one much faster then something bigger then it, like say Blastoise

Is there a way to discard unwanted PokePuffs without angrying your pokemon? i have a surplus as a play alot of games.

The way I do it is I fill them up with Puffs (you can tell which one is their last puff before being full when they take a slight pause before biting) and then dropping puffs will result in the Pokemon just having a question mark above their head, not getting mad.